Abstract
Over the course of the 1980s relations between Japan and the United States have entered a difficult phase of adjustment. Growing strains have emerged whose rise in intensity has seemed to parallel the rising US deficit in its bilateral trade balance with Japan. When we reflect on these developments, it is striking how recent they are in origin. Japan and the United States entered the decade of the 1960s with a strong and untarnished relationship. The United States still saw itself as playing the big brother, protector role and Japan was content to remain securely tucked under the American nuclear umbrella, to follow the American lead in international affairs, and to focus its energies on building its economy. These were compatible roles and perceptions, and the relationship was by and large a harmonious one. Japan was just entering the second stage of its economic reconstruction, its industrial sector still had a reputation for producing shoddy goods, and the US still had the image of the world’s supreme and invincible economic power.
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Flanagan, S.C. (1991). The Political and Cultural Dimensions of the Trade Friction between the United States and Japan. In: Mason, T.D., Turay, A.M. (eds) US-Japan Trade Friction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10788-9_3
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